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squirm

verb as in wiggle, fidget

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He catches the squirming insect in his nimble little fingers and crushes the Obayifo like a blueberry.

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Still cradling the squirming cat, she knelt before the children and gazed at each face in turn.

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Penelope squirmed; sitting on a rock was not nearly as comfortable as her cozy armchair in the nursery would be.

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“After all, not even Edith-Anne Pevington wrote postcards to Rainbow, clever pony that he was,” she thought as she helped the little girl squirm her arms into the sleeves.

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Odder still is the fact that its teddy bear arms are wrapped tightly around a roly-poly furball who squirms and makes noises—announcing to the world that he isn’t stuffed with fluff.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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